What does Gordon Allen Pross think he is doing?
Evergreen candidate Gordon Allen Pross apparently has something of a permanent campaign website up, via google, complete with a historical review of his voter’s pamphlet statements dating back to 1998. I do not know what to note from this. It does appear he has crafted his platform down to his tithing system — described with a description of Lincoln copperhead pennies, further making a historical connection to the political legacy of Abraham Lincoln. I suspect Pross thinks of himself in the manner of Huey Long, who proclaimed himself of the party of BOTH Jefferson AND Lincoln — beyond party, having travelled a trail from Democrat to Republic to “GOP” — initials he grants two different meanings.
Axe your tax, and oh boy! Watch out Doc! Gordon Allen Pross has returned to his old stomping grounds, after flirting with his Senate bids, and is taking YOU ON!
I don’t know what Mccranium refers to here regarding media coverage. Even a fringe figure of the stature of Pross warrants a trickle of media coverage, and unless I am missing out on 15 minute stories on the KNDO and KNDU Local news at 5 coverage, a trickle is what Pross has here. And Pross and Ron Paul aren’t really comprable either, as I can point to and flush out real live Ron Paul supporters — Hell! Forget that some supporters flew a blimp. Some have decided to form a Ron Paul Commune! — It’s definitely a niche following, but it’s enough to — for instance, disrupt a Republican website’s call for platform policies. Pross gets you nothing. Not even a bumper sticker to be found. Good lord, a google search for “Gordon Allen Pross” pops up my page at #1 — last I checked.
I’m not entirely sure what Gordon Allen Pross thinks he is doing. It’s hard for me to imagine he thinks he is on the cusp of any type of victory. To ascertain whether or not that is the case takes a more careful reading of his words than I am compelled to try.Â
This is as opposed to the case of Montana’s Bob Kelleher, the perenial candidate whose frequent campaigns garnered him enough name recognition to bolt him to the Republican Senate nomination, who has more or less stated he never expected to win a danged thing. Kelleher’s campaign hobby can be thought of as something of a Tribune to a Lost Cause, or a host of lost causes. Pross? I gots nothing.
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Um… you know exactly what I’m thinking… or perhaps you don’t. But you and I know that coverage of serious candidates in this district is bad enough as it is. And giving street cred to a guy who has no campaign while ignoring the serious ones degrades the process. But they would rather report on how many times and who was tasered last week anyway. That’s what a self-proclaimed family newspaper is all about.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/942/story/260788.html
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
The “Water-skiing Squirrel” Syndrome, which is that the news sources find that the most viewed news-items on their Internet are … less than news nutritional. What was the equivalent of the final goofy news item on the local news becomes the big news item. The number one news story on the Seattle Times webpage in its history is the Enumclaw Bestiality story.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 am
Oh man… that paragraph is why I like you.
Be well.
j
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
With respect to Pross, having just read the Yakima Herald article I’m left with a bit of fatigue. Pross gets several paragraphs at the top, leaving some short paragraphs for Fearing. The amount of coverage and order of the coverage should be reversed.